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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Will Use 16 Voltaire Infiniband Switches

As part of a new HPC system from HP

Voltaire Ltd. announced that Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) will use Voltaire’s
Grid Backbone switching solutions as part of
a new high-performance computing (HPC) system from HP, designed to
accelerate research discovery in environmental molecular sciences. This
represents a multimillion dollar deal for Voltaire for planned delivery
in 2008.

This supercomputer will aid in furthering EMSL’s
mission to use scientific computing to develop a molecular-level
understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes that
underlie the most critical environmental issues facing the DOE
,”
said Kevin Regimbal, associate director for Enabling Technologies at the
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

The supercomputer will be located in the Environmental Molecular
Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy (DOE) national
scientific user facility located at the PNNL in Richland, Wash. It will
be used for research projects related to bioremediation, energy
production and environmental clean-up. The system’s
scalable design uses Voltaire InfiniBand-based switches as the
high-performance interconnect to allow scientists to run more complex
problems and obtain faster and more accurate results.

The supercomputer is composed of HP ProLiant servers interconnected with
sixteen Voltaire Grid Director 2012
InfiniBand switches, which deliver 20 Gigabits/second or Double Data
Rate (DDR) bandwidth and very low latency. Consisting of 18,480 2.2
gigahertz AMD processor cores, the supercomputer will have an expected
total peak performance of about 163 teraflops, making it one of the world’s
most powerful supercomputers.

HP has a strong and successful relationship
with Voltaire to deliver Voltaire’s InfiniBand-based switches and
software within HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio
,”
said Ed Turkel, manager of the product and technology marketing group
for the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Division at HP. “Voltaire’s
solutions have enabled HP to deploy scalable, reliable, InfiniBand
clusters across a broad performance range, including a number of very
large systems such as this deployment at PNNL
.”

The system is expected to be delivered and tested in two phases starting
in Q1 2008 and is expected to be fully operational in September 2008.

Voltaire Ltd.


Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory

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